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Top of HackerNews today: our article on Google Antigravity exfiltrating .env variables via indirect prompt injection -- even when explicitly prohibited by user settings!

🚨The White House just launched the Genesis Mission — a Manhattan Project for AI The Department of Energy will build a national AI platform on top of U.S. supercomputers and federal science data, train scientific foundation models, and run AI agents + robotic labs to automate experiments in biotech, critical materials, nuclear fission/fusion, space, quantum, and semiconductors. Let’s unpack what this order actually builds, and how it could rewire the AI, energy, and science landscape over the next decade:

We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it’s the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater performance, versatility, and fungibility than ASICs, which are designed for specific AI frameworks or functions.

🚨 TELEGRAM FOUNDER ARRESTED: IS HOLDING TECH CREATORS ACCOUNTABLE FOR USER CRIMES JUST? Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, has been arrested in France on allegations that his app's encryption aids drug trafficking and fraud. Critics say this is like blaming Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) for the Dark Web or Elon for every offensive tweet. Are we setting a dangerous precedent by holding tech innovators liable for the actions of users? Is this about justice, or is it a misunderstanding of how technology should be regulated? Source: The Sun

BREAKING: Amazon and OpenAI have agreed to a $38 billion deal to expand compute capacity. OpenAI will immediately begin running workloads on AWS, using hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s, $NVDA, GPUs.